SRC Research Report 22
SRC Research Report 22
User interfaces based on mice, bitmap displays, and windows are becoming commonplace, and there is a growing expectation that all programs, no matter how trivial or how complicated, should present a graphically elegant and sophisticated user interface. Unfortunately, such polished interfaces are normally difficult to build. Our goal is to make these tasks much simpler, so that application builders and even application users can confront them as routine and painless activities.
The approach described in this report achieves this goal by separating the user interface from the application program, as is done in many user interface management systems, and by using a user interface editor to build the interfaces. In a sense, we apply the direct manipulation style characteristic of user interfaces to the very process of building them, as opposed to building them by programming.
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